Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too. Marcus Aurelius

For time is like a fashionable hostThat slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,And with the arms outstretchd, as he would fly,Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles,And farewell goes out sighing. William Shakespeare